Telegram-herald., 1887-07-10
DOLLARS For CENTS
GREAT eao@r= OF NEWSPAPERS
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th4s oFisieisn - newspapers was always
good proof of tasir sigsr sna usefula==s. be
coatzn1sd. No Esssp1PsF has ever reaehe3--
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years froz2 ue@ psspls n ~ gruntle - Il just
ss mach ss they 30 toes,. L Es-4n1 always
wia - hzlGzn last titgtloH with human sins,
de.sliaz Win kaaszz. 4asiFs, and Fessciisg ths
vice ol hanazlty, - ~sil tEs virtue. It's
oracs = % priot ths news. - give TIE history
C. Yesterday 70 ekroniels TIE JOYS s1d sor-
rows. tas blsss sss asd ths crnHss The
Texas editor wko declared that me sPapsrs
arr bad. because 40 many bad thlcgs happen"
slltanled up ths philosophy of the situation
TIE enly way 10 snake newspapers good Is 10
taks the wickesiness out OF tAe world Or - stop
psopIe from tslkiAg about It. As It HOW Is,
nins people Will read an account cf great bat
tis. where only 0ne vii wade through the pro
eseiings Of = peace congress The strength Of
the press consists ia paEt, OF the very fact
that it gives Us 3 picture OF human life. with
the shadow as well as the hsht
Bur 4 We examine the newspaper more
| carefully We will find that crime takes up
very anall part OF is pages, and that the
columns represent all interests and all depart
| rnsnts Of news and business effort We find
the press an inseparabls part Of cur national
| existence. an Indispensable adjunct 70 our
liberty lt Is the peoples university, the ma
tion's storehOuse Of facts. IL has given brains
a market value and has enlightened aud
nodernized every sphere Of labor. Thomas
| Jefferson said se would rather live in 4 cOun-
| Try with newspapers and without "a govern
mant than ia a country with government,
| but without newspapers. "Once architecture
was the press, said Dean Stanley, ''and told
| great thoughts 70 the world in stone; but now
the press Is architecture and is building up
the world OF ideas and usages" "A journal
| ist" exclaimed Napoleon l. That means a
| grumbler. eensurer, glver OF advice, a
regent or sovereigns. tutor of nations. Four
hostile newspapers are more 10 be dreaded
than 10000 bayonets."
| LOOK AT THEIR RECORD.
| IN a land where the national growth has
| bordered on the marvellous the increase in
\ newspapers has been over nine times as great
as the increase in population. Their value
| has multiplied six times as rapidly as the
| countrys wealth In the decade between
| 1870 and 1850 when the United States went
| ahead at steam engine speed, the progress was
only one-third Of the progress of It's journal
! ism. There was no part Of the advancement
that did not feel the influence Of the press.
| Wherever a new settlement was opened the
| newspaper was there TO boom It's attractions.
| When the Pacific railroads were being built
| the printing press preceded the iron rails and
locomotives. Where prosperous city in
| Dakota now stands newspaper was printed
| on dry goods box before building had
been erected and before the infant town was
| old enough TO know its own name.
The newspaper did not wait for the era Of
| swift transportation or the telegraph or the
telephone. II pushed out on its own behalf.
1t sent special vessels to England TO secure
early news: it established pony expresses
| from Halifax to New Orleans it gave the
| government its first information in the Mex
lean war; it had news schooaers intercepting
boats from Europe. When Daniel Webster
| made a famous speech in Boston, Henry J.
! Raymond put printing press and type on "a
steamer, got his report, hurried to the boat,
wrote it out and by the time Asw York was
reached the edition of the paper was ready
for distribution. The same thing was done
for other cities. result of all this enter
| prise is seen today in our magnificent postal
| system, which is indirectly product of news
paper competition. and 70 which the news
| papers contribute over 81 100000 year.
| Fortunes are spent overy day for matter
| which costs the reader two cents. When
| Emperor William made his famous speech
after the battle of SadOwa, s. 900 in gold
| was paid for its Transmission Go an American
| paper. When Stanley brought Livingstone's
letters from the interior OF Africa, $4,000
were spent in cabling them. When the new
| SDanish treaty with this country was signed
! az Madrid an American jonrnal got it all by
cable at an outlay Of $4,000 These are the
Iarger instances, but they illustrate the news-
| paper spirit. No matter what news costs,
the papers will have it. They cover this
country with a thrcughness that allows no
guilty item to escape They have sent expe-
ditions 70 the Arctic regions and to the
Equator, TO Siberia and to Africa, to the
region Of the Eskimo and to the warm trail
OF the murderouS Apache They have ex-
plored subterranean caverns and investi-
gated ocean wrecks in diving suits.
BUT DAILY INCIDENT.
A few days ago | went carefully over one
Of our leading newspapers. 1t contained. ex-
elusive of all advertising, IA different items
on almost every subject imaginable Adding
the distances that the different dispatches
had Travelled, the result was total Of over
900 600 miles. What work all this entailed IN
the short space Of a dozen hours VIII havo to
be left to the imagination. And yet II u
but daily incident of journalism.
At the close of the revolution there were in
this country forty-three papers, whose aggre-
| gate circulation was very low in the thou
sands. Now there are 12 600 newspaper pub
Ications, which print and distribute every
year 5000, 100000 copies, or over two copies
for every man. woman and child in the world
II Won want TO carry out the figures you
will find that the newspapers of this country
print every year the rather comfortable total
| of nearly 900 O00 600 words OF matter. IL
one person were % read twelve hours a day,
he would he a good many thousand years old
before he GOT through this mass. II Mr.
Rider Haggari's She, d" the wonderful woman
who waited 2.0o0 years for a young man
without becoming an old maid. had set out 10
read as many newspapers as are published in
this country in twelve months, she would not
have been half way through her task when
the Young man arrived, and, probably. not
that fsr as she might have advertised for
him. with the usual result
From presses that made 20S impressions an
hour. less than century ago. we have won
derful pieces Of mechanism that from con
tinuous roll Of paper cut, print and fold